Defense economics

War finance: when deterrence fails

War is too serious, and too expensive, to be left to the whim of chance, yet throughout history many governments have been willing to engage in war if it suited their interests as they perceived them, and many have also been dragged into wars when cooler calculations might have encouraged them to remain at peace. It was out of the need to raise the finance to conduct wars that the earliest systems for collecting public finance developed.

Taxation

The practice of taxing the population to pay for war has a long history. In early nomadic ... (100 of 6,750 words)